National Road was Washington’s dream

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National Road was Washington’s dream
National Road was Washington’s dream

As I shared last week, the National Road, a dream of both Washington and Jefferson became reality in 1806, when Thomas Jefferson signed the congressional legislation for the nation’s first multi-state, federally funded highway, the Cumberland Road later called the National Road.

It reached Wheeling, then a part of Virginia in 1818. This Ohio River town flourished with manufacturing industries. West…